George shove



106. COMPOSITIONS,

COATING OR PLASHC Cross Reference ithxtcnt demise.

GEORGE SHOVE, OF YARMOUTH PORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

Lam Patent No. 101,775, dated 111M112, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROOFING-TILES.

The Schedule referred to in the Letters Patent and making put of thelame.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, Gnome SHOVE, of Yarmouth Port, of the county ofBarustable and State of Massa chusetts, have made a new and usefulinvention or Composition for Roofing, or various other purposes in thearts; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specification.

The constituent parts of said composition are bydraulic cement, calcinedplaster of Paris, and gela tine.

In making the composition, take one hundred pounds of the hyflgauliccement, one hundred pounds of the laster of Pans an eight pounds ofgelatiue or lue, um Krafiic, or or s are may suBsfituEd for thegelatiue, but prefer the latter.

These constitutents may be mixed with about eighty pounds of water, andthereby converted into a paste or dough, which, after being thus made,is to be molded into the shape of tiles or other articles, and shouldsubsequently be dipped in melted asphaltum, bitumen, or rosin, in orderto cover the surface or surfaces so dipped with a substance imperviousto water.

I do not confine my saidcomposition to the precise proportions of itsconstituents as stated, as they may .be varied more or less withoutmaterially changing Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

Examiner

